International Models of Crime Prevention (From Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative Perspective, P 234-254, 2009, Adam Crawford, ed. - See NCJ-229306)

• NCJ Number: 229317
• Author(s): Margaret Shaw
• Date Published: 2009
• Length: 21 pages
• Sale Source: Willan Publishing
• Publication Format: Book Chapter
• Publication Type: Collected Work
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This chapter considers the implications and relevance of European models of crime prevention and community safety for developing third world countries in which poverty and crime are endemic.

Abstract

In situations where the state is weak, absent, and/or unwelcome, safety and security are differently conceived, and local knowledge, capacity, and resources take on more importance. The role of institutions within civil society becomes crucial in realizing bottom-up problem-solving that engages with key actors and agencies. Highlighted is the central importance of context in thinking about, imagining, and carrying out crime prevention. A broad concept of crime prevention that engages with urban safety through community organization, public health, urban regeneration and inclusive notions of human security, suggest the need to remove crime from the political agenda, the need to restrain the focus on policing, and the need to de-centralize criminology's narrow preoccupations. Figures, notes, and references